Big Ideas: A New Alignment with Academic Standards

Created in partnership with National Geographic, with examples of learning experiences that link food, culture, health, and the environment.

A Center for Ecoliteracy – National Geographic partnership.

This addition to the Center for Ecoliteracy’s Big Ideas suite of resources was created for publication on the National Geographic Education website in conjunction with National Geographic magazine’s 2014 series of articles, “The Future of Food.” Big Ideas (2014)identifies key concepts that link food, culture, health, and the environment.

Big Ideas aligns these concepts with the following recent academic standards:

A previous Big Ideas (2008) provided an extensive conceptual road map based on benchmarks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and linking food, culture, health, and the environment.

The Future of Food series (May – December 2014) traced the development of our dominant food system and associated issues, and profiled promising strategies to create systems for nourishing ourselves while serving people, communities, and the natural environment.

The Big Ideas resources are published by Learning in the Real World™, the publishing imprint of the Center for Ecoliteracy.

May 16 2014

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